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...relaxing at a Brooklyn music club when a fight broke out between two women. Next thing Louima knew, he had been taken into custody by police outside the club. Louima, a bank security guard and a married father, says he was beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet plunger, into his rectum. (Once Louima was hospitalized--after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BEATING IN BROOKLYN | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...started out with an unspeakably horrible alleged assault on a single Haitan suspect in Brooklyn. Now it's gone Federal. The pain of 30-year-old Abner Louima, who says he was sexually tortured with a toilet plunger by police at New York's 70th Precinct, has been felt across the country. Today the Justice Department announced it would be stepping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Comes to Brooklyn | 8/19/1997 | See Source »

...70th minute, Silva provided just that. Felled by a Terrier defender in the box on a breakaway, Silva was awarded a penalty kick which he subsequently shot into the lower left corner...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Men's Soccer Blasts Into NCAAs | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Despite celebrating his 70th birthday just two months ago, Lewis adheres to a busy daily schedule. He has written a daily column for the Op-Ed section of The New York Times since 1969 and says he doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. | Title: Champion of Underdogs | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For Home Schooling | 5/29/1997 | See Source »

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